Can You Move a Lincoln Square Bungalow With a Piano?

Can You Move a Lincoln Square Bungalow With a Piano?

Last updated: October 2026

Yes. It's Lincoln Square's specialty pairing. Our piano crew joins the house move on the same day.

Lincoln Square has plenty of Chicago bungalows, and plenty of families with a piano. An upright in the front room. A baby grand in the living room. A spinet that's been in the basement for decades. When the family moves, the piano comes too. It doesn't need a separate day or a separate company, and nobody needs a second set of strangers walking through a house that's already half packed.

Why same-day matters

When the piano moves with the rest of the house, everything arrives together. The piano can go straight into the spot where it belongs while the rest of the furniture is placed around it. There's no second appointment. Nobody has to plan around a piano that's still at the old house.

How a piano moves

Uprights. Padded and strapped on a piano board.

Grands and baby grands. Partly taken apart first. The legs and pedals come off with the music stand and lid, and the piano rides on its side on a skid board. Read can you move a grand piano.

Digital pianos. Far simpler. Read do you move digital pianos and keyboards.

Bungalow stairs

Bungalow moves are mostly about basement and attic stairs. If the piano lives in the basement, the crew brings it up carefully, one step at a time. If the staircase won't work, the window or balcony will. Read do Chicago bungalow moves have special challenges and what if my piano won't fit up the staircase.

Protecting the home

Floors, door frames, and stairs get protected on every move, at no charge. A piano is heavy. Protection goes down before anything moves, and the crew rolls the instrument along a protected path from the room it's leaving all the way out to the truck, so the only thing that touches your floors is padding.

After the move

Plan to have your tuner come out once the piano has settled into its new home.

Moving within the neighborhood

If the piano is only moving a few blocks, it still gets the same care. Short distance. Same process. Read can you move a piano within my house for in-house repositioning.

Parking and timing

Some Lincoln Square side streets carry permit zones. Chicago sweeps streets on weekdays from April through mid-November. And festival weekends near the Square close the core streets. Read when does street sweeping affect a Lincoln Square move and can you move on festival weekends near Lincoln Square.

Coverage

Every move includes our standard coverage, which is based on weight. For a valuable instrument, you can buy full coverage insurance separately.

Pricing

Piano moves are priced by piano type, stairs, and distance. When the piano is part of a house move, it's planned into the same estimate. Read how much does piano moving cost in Chicago.

For a real Lincoln Square move, read the Amanda Hassan story.

Bungalow and piano moves are covered on our Lincoln Square movers page and our piano moving service, part of our moving services.

Call (773) 275-4100 or email info@wcmoving.com, and tell us about the piano.